Exhibitors Herald (1927)

October 29, 1927 EXHIBITORS HERALD 19 NECESSARY Organ Protection! FALL and winter days, their coldness and dampness can ruin your organ in a short time. Proper care of the instrument will however make it serviceable, with little maintenance, for years. Keeping the pipes ,and chests warm and dry is necessary if you are to get the best possible service from your organ and this will eliminate organ maintenance too! EVENHEETERS serve this purpose. They are Organ Protectors. They keep the air in the organ chamber warm and dry and keep it circulating through the chamber to every part of the organ. A small investment in organ protection now will save you a great deal of maintenance in the future. You will find that EVENHEETERS are the best possible organ protection you can obtain. They are reliable and serviceable too ; and one installed now will relieve you of much worry and organ maintenance expense. EVENHEETERS Two Worlds Famous Installations , Roxy Theatre , New York; Paramount Theatre , New York Organ Manufacturers Recommend EVENHEETERS», Theatre Chain Owners Use them . CRAMBLET ENGINEERING CORP. 289 Milwaukee Street Milwaukee, Wis. mand scattered in three locations in the theatre. By this device the plant can be set to provide any desired temperature in degree fahrenheit and will maintain that uniformity of temperature until altered. The Stanley theatre was planned, engineered and erected by Hoffman Henon Company of Philadelphia, architects, engineers and builders who have a score of Stanley houses already to their credit. The construction work was under the direction of Roland Toner, superintendent of construction, who worked under the personal supervision of Joseph P. Morgan, general manager of the Stanley-Crandall Company of Washington. It is an eloquent commentary upon the scientific proficiency of Hoffman Henon Company that the exact ground area which formerly bore the Academy of Music with a total seating capacity of about 1,800 should have been made to accommodate the new Stanley with total seating capacity amplified more than twice to 4,000 seats. Similar skill has been demonstrated in the provision for exits from the theatre of which there are a total of 26. On the orchestra floor there are 14 exits without steps leading directly to level surfaced ramps pitched at easy grades. In the balcony there are 12 quadruplicate exits by which is meant 12 sets of double doors. These lead to covered fire escapes descending at comfortable angles and with steps of ample tread to paved courts 12 feet wide. The Stanley is the latest addition to the circuit of theatres operated by the StanleyCrandall Company of Washington and is under the resident managership of Bernard Depkin, Jr., well known Baltimore showman. The Symphony Orchestra is under the joint conductorship of Robert Paul Iula and Felice S. Itila, both Baltimoreans by birth and both of national reputation as artists, composers and conductors. The Stanley is open to the public daily except Sunday at 10:30 a. m. with organ recital beginning at 10:43 and the first regular performance at 11. Performances are continuous to closing daily at 11 p. m. and four de luxe performances will mark each day’s presentations of the bill. Driving Down Overhead ( Continued from page 14) the full sense of the word, at least twothirds of the motion picture theatres and possibly more, are operating pop corn machines, and in some instances maintaining rather elaborate candy stands. At the Bareli, a small stand of a year ago has been broadened until it now carries a variety of candy, peanuts, etc., and can be depended upon to bring in a considerable sum each day. The Pine Hills theatre in Albanv. a residential house, maintains an ice cream store adjoining, and this store is said to pay not only for all of the film shown, but also practically every bit of overhead. The stand in the Rosenthal house in Troy is reported to be bringing in from $60 to $80 a day. The Majestic, and a number of other subsequent run houses in Albany, are using peanut and pop corn machines in their lobbies, but thus far have not taken very kindly to the idea of installing candy stands. Bays Dies at Lyons, Kan. ( Special to the Herald) LYONS, KAN., Oct. 25.— G. W. Bays, who recently purchased the Odeon theatre here, is dead, after being ill a short time.